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Riot guns and revolution: How a bloody 1934 workers strike in Minneapolis catalyzed the nation
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/07/22/how-a-1934-minneapolis-workers-strike-shaped-historyGretchen Brown July 22, 2025 4:00 AM
Police and strikers clash during the 1934 truckers strike in Minneapolis. Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law 90 years ago this month. For the first time, workers in the United States had the right to organize unions and bargain collectively.
The law was influenced, in part, by a landmark 1934 Minneapolis strike organized by truck drivers with the Teamsters Local 574.
It was an outcome that seemed all but impossible in the first part of the decade.
America was deep in the Great Depression. And Minneapolis wasn’t exactly friendly to unions.
FULL story at link above.
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